How Stuff Works

TV Series
2008–
43m

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HowStuffWorks is about the stuff that makes the world go 'round. It's truly incredible to see the ingenious lengths people go to in order to extract rubber and iron, corn and wheat, and wate... Read allHowStuffWorks is about the stuff that makes the world go 'round. It's truly incredible to see the ingenious lengths people go to in order to extract rubber and iron, corn and wheat, and water and salt from the earth. Equally amazing is the number of different and varied products ... Read allHowStuffWorks is about the stuff that makes the world go 'round. It's truly incredible to see the ingenious lengths people go to in order to extract rubber and iron, corn and wheat, and water and salt from the earth. Equally amazing is the number of different and varied products that can be derived from something so fundamental. Follow the incredible journey of these ... Read all

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Gabe Doran

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Mike Senese

Self…

• 2010–2011

David Heber

Self - Director of Center for Human Nutrition, UCLA

• 2008–2009

Jimmie Oxley

Self - Professor of Chemistry, University of Rhode Island

• 2009

Michael Pollan

Self - Author, 'The Omnivore's Dilemma'

• 2008

Sam Calagione

Self - Dogfish Head Craft Brewery

• 2008

Charlie Bamforth

Self - Professor, University of California, Davis

• 2008

Charles Wingard

Self - Walter P. Rawl and Sons

• 2008

Patrick McGovern

Self - Sr. Research Scientist, University of Pennsylvania

• 2008

Ken Grossman

Self - Sierra Nevada Brewery

• 2008

Kevin Smith

Self - Jack Daniels

• 2008

Larry Johnson

Self - Iowa State University

• 2008

Brian Frahm

Self - Vera Sun Energy

• 2008

Brian Wilcox

Self - CP Kelco

• 2008

Blake Joyce

Self - University of Tennessee

• 2008

Neal Stewart

Self - University of Tennessee

• 2008

Charlie Bowman

Self - CP Kelco

• 2008

Evan Rail

Self - Author, 'Good Beer Guide: Prague and the Czech Republic'

• 2008

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7jack_o_hasanov_imdb

Hmm..

I watched Lider TV many times when I was a kid, it was fun when I was a kid, I don't know if it would be fun if I watched it now.

4has_no_pseudonym

So horrible...

The first season of this show was decent, as a kind of knock off of 'How It's Made', but the second season dropped horribly in quality when they went from the production and history of various commodities to holidays and weather.

I wanted to bang my head into a wall with all the dubious, often specious or blatantly wrong conclusions about how something was pivotal in creating or guiding the outcome of something else entirely. Many things declared as fact were merely speculation or apocryphal, with no consensus among experts. And basically every Christmas connection was silly or so tenuous as to be ridiculous and one wonders why it was included at all.

Watch the show up to the episode 'Steel' and then stop. Even if the five final episodes might have some interesting kernels of truth it is not worth sorting them from the chaff.